35-38 You were shown all this so that you would know that God is, well, God. He’s the only God there is. He’s it. He made it possible for you to hear his voice out of Heaven to discipline you. Down on Earth, he showed you the big fire and again you heard his words, this time out of the fire. He loved your ancestors and chose to work with their children. He personally and powerfully brought you out of Egypt in order to displace bigger and stronger and older nations with you, bringing you out and turning their land over to you as an inheritance. And now it’s happening. This very day.

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36 From heaven he made you hear his voice(A) to discipline(B) you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. 37 Because he loved(C) your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,(D) 38 to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance,(E) as it is today.

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